Regina Brooks

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Ms. Regina Brooks is the founder and President of
Serendipity Literary Agency LLC. Equally at home in the technical world of
engineering as in the literary world of writing and editing, Ms. Brooks has
over a decade of experience in senior positions at major publishing houses
including John Wiley & Sons Inc. and the McGraw-Hill Companies. She is a
graduate of the Howard University Publishing Institute in Washington DC.
Prior to her publishing career she worked as an aerospace engineer for NASA
Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD, and made history as the first
African American woman to receive a Bachelors of Science Degree in Aerospace
Engineering from the Ohio State University. She is also a graduate of The
School of the Arts High School in Rochester, NY.

Brooks is the Co-Executive Director of the Y. B. Literary Foundation, a
not-for-profit organization whose mission is to promote the reading of
literature as a meaningful, lifelong activity and transformative experience
for youth. In 2004, she was a finalist for the Stevie Award for Women
Entrepreneurs and was honored as the NY Urban Leagues Rising Star. She is
listed in International Who’s Who under the categories of Engineering,
Technology, Entrepreneurs, and Professional Management. She has been
highlighted in several national and international magazines and periodicals,
including Forbes, Media Bistro, Writers and Poets, Essence Magazine, Writers
Digest Magazine, The Writer, and Sister2Sister magazine and a host of
others. Ms. Brooks is a member of the Association of Author Representatives
AAR, has edited over 100 published books, and is the author of Writing Great
Books For Young Adults (Sourcebooks) the Essence Magazine 2004 Quick Pick
children’s book Never Finished! Never Done!, published by Scholastic Inc., and You Really Should Write A Book: How to write, Sell
and Market Your Memoir (St. Martin's Press).